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n Sunday, December 22, 2019 4 TH Sunday of Advent THE GAZETTE St. Athanasius Episcopal Church 840 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90026 • (213) 482-2040 ext 201 • www.SaintALA.org NEWSBRIEFS THE LAST THREE Welcome!! POSADAS We’re glad you’re here and DEC 16-24, 7 pm hope you’ll consider becoming Come for one night or every an active member of our church night to join the community in family. Please fill out the the church at 7:00 pm welcome coupon you receive and hand it to a member of the clergy We accompany Mary and Joseph on their journey to Bethlehem as you leave the service. in Scripture, song & story. Following the procession we gather Please join us for fellowship & for dinner, surprises, piñatas and candies. refreshments in the Jonathan Daniels room upstairs. Christmas Eve & Day Schedule The Eucharist may be dedicated Dec 24 Christmas Eve in memory of a loved one or taken Mini Christmas Concert 4:30 pm to the sick. Contact Fr Frank. English Eucharist 5:00 PM Secured parking access is Posada 6:15 PM available under the building. Entrances are on Echo Park & Spanish Service 6:45 PM Laguna Avenues. Fiesta with 7:45 PM Restrooms are located to the left of Piñatas and Dinner the desk in the north building or Dec 25 Christmas Day down the hall in south building. Bilingual English/Korean 11:00 AM Offerings: Checks may be made to St. Athanasius, placed in the Total pledges to date for the three language offering or mailed to office. groups is $40,782. Pledge envelopes are Flowers: If you would like to available in Jonathan Daniels during coffee donate altar flowers on a given hour. There is an alphabetical list with the Sunday there is a calendar in the numbers of your envelopes to help you find Sacristy. your box. You may receive a box of Sermons can be read and heard on envelopes whether you pledge or not. Let Fr. the church’s Face-book page, St. Frank know if you would like envelopes. Athanasius at the Cathedral Pledge forms may be submitted at any time Center and website throughout the year. If you need a form email SaintALA.org. Frank to request one electronically. Prayer Concerns This week at St. A We pray for Ramon Partida, recovering from a rd TODAY 12/22/19 3 Sunday of Advent second surgery, and for Gloria Pearce who continues to struggle with her health. 8:45 – Youth Sunday School Congratulations to Carminnie Doromal for 11:00 – English Eucharist being sworn in as a U.S. Citizen last Thursday. 12:15–Coffee and pastries Tuesday 12/24 Christmas Eve 4:30 pm Mini Christmas Concert 5:00 PM English Eucharist 6:15 PM Posada 6:45 PM Spanish Service 7:45 PM Fiesta with Piñatas and Dinner Friday 12/27 We also pray for all those recovering from the fires in California, hurricanes in the east, and No Food Bank Today for victims and families in too many places to name; for all who face a humanitarian struggle st Sunday 12/29 1 Sunday of Christmas at the border and other caravans on their way, 11:00 – Eucharist as well as those providing aid and services to 12:15–Coffee, Pastries, the asylum seekers. For policies & conditions for refugees; for victims of hate crimes, human trafficking, school shootings and unjust www.SaintALA.org/calendar treatment. Saint of the Week Henry Budd Saint’s Day: December 22 As we enter the Christmas season, we remember the early connections between the Anglican Communion and people of First Nations ancestry. Henry Budd was the first person of First Nations ancestry to be ordained in the Anglican tradition in North America. He is remembered for his service among the Cree in Western Canada. Budd was an orphan and the date of his birth is unknown. He entered a mission school that was a joint venture with the Hudson’s Bay Company to provide a Christian education to the First Nations people in the area of Rupert’s Land, the vast expanse of land that encircled Hudson Bay before its division into Canadian provinces. Before embarking on a vocation as a priest and teacher, he worked as a clerk for the Hudson’s Bay Company. Henry Budd’s ministry began as a lay teacher in the Red River region of Manitoba where he taught at St. John’s Anglican Parish School. He and his wife, Betsy, remained in the area for the next thirteen years where Budd taught school and served as a lay minister in the Anglican Church. Ordained to the Anglican priesthood on December 22, 1850, having been trained largely by personal mentoring and tutoring from other clergy, Budd was assigned to the Mission at Nipawim where he worked as a pastor until 1867. Thereafter, Budd returned to The Pas where he was put in charge of a vast area encompassing several communities, and where he continued his vocation as both priest and teacher. Sadly, records of the Church Missionary Society indicate that Budd, a person of native, mixed race, was paid half of what the white missionaries were paid. Henry Budd is remembered as an eloquent speaker and writer in both Cree and English. He endeared himself to those he served by exhibiting clearly in the living of his life the Christian principles he preached and the values he taught. Enduring among his many contributions are his translations of the Scriptures and the Book of Common Prayer into the Cree language. Budd died on April 2, 1875, just a few days after he had conducted Easter services. He is buried in The Pas, Manitoba. .